This is exciting news!

A few weeks ago, I was approached by the editorial team at TED to say that my talk from 2022’s TEDx Newcastle event, ‘What happens as we die?’ was being considered for the main TED website. But there were fact checks to make (of course) and until publication, this was a secret.

A few days ago, they let me know that the fact checks were complete and they wanted to showcase this talk. What a wonderful opportunity to give ‘ordinary dying’ a massive international platform!

The TED team invited me to submit additional materials so they could create a page with my video, links to my books With The End In Mind and Listen, to this website, and to other resources that might be helpful to a person, family or community looking for easy to understand, gentle information about dying, death, end of life care and planning ahead.

My TED page went live today and it’s here.
Already, there are lots of posts about it on social media, and I can see the ripples of information radiating out.

TED’s strapline is ‘Ideas Worth Spreading.’ Surely, knowing what happens as we die, so we can be better informed and less afraid, is definitely one of those ideas.

Thank you, TED.